Engineering Analysis of Flight Vehicles

by Holt Ashley

Overview

Excellent graduate-level text explores virtually every important subject in the fields of subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aerodynamics and dynamics, demonstrating their interface in atmospheric flight vehicle design. 1974 edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486672137
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	05/17/2012
Series:	Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering Series
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.22(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Holt Ashley (1923-2006) was Professor Emeritus of Astronautics and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Best known for his pioneering research and books in the field of aeroelasticity, he devised methods that changed the design of structures ranging from wings to wind turbines.

Table of Contents

1. The Morphology of Flight Vehicles
2. Equations of Motionb for Right Flight Vehicles
3.Introduction to Vehicle Aerodynamics
4. Aerodynamic Terms for Equations of Motion; Airloads on Thin Wings
5. Propulsive Terms-One Dimensional Analysis of Jet and Rocket Propulsion
6. Small-Perturbation Response and Dynamic Stability of Flight Vehicles
7. Solution of the Small-Perturbation Equations of Motion
8. Static Stability, Trim, Static Performance and related Subjects
9. Dynamic Performance: Boost from Nonrotating and Rotating Planets; Numerical Itegration of Ordinary Differential Equations
10. Aerodynamic Terms for Equations of Motion; Slender and Blunt Bodies
11. Dynamic performance: Atmospheric Enrtry
12. The Uses of Optimization
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

A textbook introducing graduate-level engineering students to the complex process of designing atmospheric flight vehicles. Originally published in 1974 by Addison-Wesley. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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